Outside looking in: Gendered roles and the well-being of working student mothers studying for a part-time PhD.
| dc.contributor.author | Cronshaw, Sue | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stokes, Peter | |
| dc.contributor.author | McCulloch, Alistair | |
| dc.date.acceptance | 2023-09-17 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-31T17:15:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-10-31T17:15:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-10-04 | |
| dc.description | open access article | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article contributes to the growing evidence base on well-being in doctoral study. It draws on 35 qualitative, in-depth interviews to explore how the well-being of an understudied group - working doctoral student mothers - is affected when undertaking part-time PhDs. Whilst there is a growing literature on the research student experience and an increased awareness of mental health issues in doctoral study, there has been little exploration of the experiences of part-time PhD students. Moreover, this is particularly true of mothers undertaking doctorates on a part-time basis. The experiences of this sub-group of research students constitutes the gap to which this paper responds. It explores the consequences of having to straddle a number of competing domains and examines how the gender role conflict, marginalisation and lack of support experienced by doctoral student mothers impacts on their psychological, physical and social well-being. The article concludes with a number of recommendations which institutions may wish to consider. | |
| dc.funder | No external funder | |
| dc.funder.other | none | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cronshaw, S., Stokes, P. and McCulloch, A. (2023) Outside looking in: Gendered roles and the well-being of working student mothers studying for a part-time PhD. Higher Education Quarterly, | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12471 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1468-2273 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2086/23316 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.peerreviewed | Yes | |
| dc.projectid | N/A | |
| dc.publisher | Wiley | |
| dc.researchinstitute | Centre for Enterprise and Innovation (CEI) | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | |
| dc.subject | Well-being | |
| dc.subject | Working student mothers | |
| dc.subject | gender equality | |
| dc.subject | doctoral study | |
| dc.subject | part-time | |
| dc.title | Outside looking in: Gendered roles and the well-being of working student mothers studying for a part-time PhD. | |
| dc.type | Article |